I was flipping through the channels the other day and I came across some cheesy horror flick. You’ve seen the setup time and time again; There are 10 or so cars lined up, overlooking some scenic view of the town, windows fogged, radios blaring some scru tunes. Then the killer breaks the window and kills the boyfriend or whatever, leaving the girl screaming bloody horror.
Anyway, this got me thinking; Does Fayetteville have a “make-out point?” You know, the place where you take your girlfriend to get physical when you’re in High School or if you’re a middle-aged man in the throes of a mid-life crisis trying to regain some essence of your once glorious and now faded youth. A place where young dreams are both made and shattered. A place where, at some point, cops will show up, tap on your fogged-up window with the butt of their maglite and ask what “you kids” are up to.
We’ve got the cross on Mt. Sequoyah, but that really doesn’t seem to work as it’s too bright and there’s a giant-ass cross looking down at you, quietly judging… Not really a place to go when your grubby hands are wanting to get their feel on. Am I right or am I right? Now, I vaguely remember hearing about a “make-out point” on the northeast side of the mountain, but can’t say that I’ve been there as I was, more or less, a total pansy in High School.
With your help, maybe, just maybe, we’ll locate this long lost “make-out point.” If so, I’ll steal a couple of my dads beers, make a mix-tape that will include a variety of guaranteed panty-melting hits such as “Sister Christian,” take my lady for a romantical dinner at Olive Garden, follow it up with a little game of put-put, then drive up to “make-out point,” crack open those MGD’s and, you know, make-out with her in my car. Awesome!
June 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fayetteville+arkansas+e+skyline+dr+%26+n+skyline+dr&sll=36.064746,-94.138198&sspn=0.022792,0.037079&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr
Back in the late eighties… this place was nice…
June 18th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thanks, Murray. That’s probably the place I was thinking about. Awesome. Unfortunately, there are houses all along skyline nowadays. Probably not the place to go these days.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I remember hearing about “the Crater” when I was a little kid. It was a parking lot with no obvious reason for existing. There was no business there, and at the time there werent any houses. There was a view of north Fayetteville. There was a couch in the woods that was known as the “F-ing couch”, so I can only assume that the stories my older brother told me about “the Crater” were true.
I think you underestimate how many people probably do still make out at the cross.
I think “the Crater” is here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=n+golden+eagle+dr.,+fayetteville,+ar&sll=36.102099,-94.147993&sspn=0.003953,0.006609&ie=UTF8&ll=36.103035,-94.147639&spn=0.007906,0.013218&z=16&iwloc=addr
June 18th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Yeah, that was The Crater… but alas there is a HUGE house there now… What the…
June 18th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
At least we have a drive-in theater for dry humping and finger banging.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
finger banging? yes.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
+53 points for smiller for being the first to break out the term “finger banging” on the flyer. Kudos, my friend.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I was accidentally at the new Shogun at 4:00 AM, and then I accidentally drove to the back parking lot. I saw some other folks who seemed to have accidentally parked their cars up there. There’s a great view, but there’s a lot of traffic. I guess I’m not that much of an exhibitionist.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
My father, who went to the University here in the sixties said that The Crater used to be referred to as “The Finger Bowl”… Quite clever…
June 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
There used to be (maybe still are?) some water tanks or something just down the hill from the cross…it was a sort of catch-all hangout point: underage drinking, “satanic” rituals, making out…all sorts of evil.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Listen to you guys, with your standards, and your “tact”, and your aversion to disease. Your problem is you’re going about the romance all wrong. What you do is you take your lady, or whatever you have, out behind the Mexican Original plant on Huntsville. Get it a Crunchwrap or a Super Sonic Cheeseburger first (or the toaster one, with the Texas toast and the onion ring). Take her/it there. Feed her/it the food. Then ake out with her/it. Feel her/its boobs or whatever it has. That’s what you do! The location is spacious, it’s dark, it’s inconspicuous. This what you need to do. Sure there’s no view, but where I’m from (Tahlequah), we have a saying: “who cares about a view of some dumb town when you have a boner and are about to use the boner.” Food for thought, fellows. Food for thought.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
ewwww
June 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I rolled up on some full on fornicating at the lookout on Mount Sequoia this Holiday Season.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
“who cares about a view of some dumb town when you have a boner and are about to use the boner.” A timeless saying that just rolls off the tongue.
zh & bryce - I guess I was wrong about the cross not being a popular make-out spot. It just seems a little too well lit. I guess some people just don’t care.